Phytolacca

Accepted species 24 Documented here 13 Family Phytolaccaceae

Accepted species 24 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Phytolacca americana L. 7,250 documented
Phytolacca octandra L. 916 documented
Phytolacca icosandra L. 273 documented
Phytolacca acinosa Roxb. 262 documented
Phytolacca dioica L. 238 documented
Phytolacca rivinoides Kunth & C.D.Bouché 126 documented
Phytolacca bogotensis Kunth 118 documented
Phytolacca rugosa A.Braun & C.D.Bouché 107 documented
Phytolacca heterotepala H.Walter 68 documented
Phytolacca japonica Makino 55 documented
Phytolacca thyrsiflora Fenzl ex J.A.Schmidt 30 documented
Phytolacca sandwicensis Endl. 9 documented
Phytolacca tetramera Hauman 4 documented
Phytolacca polyandra Batalin 1 below the evidence gate
Phytolacca chilensis Bridges ex Moq. 0 below the evidence gate
Phytolacca cyclopetala H.Walter 0 below the evidence gate
Phytolacca dodecandra L'Hér. 0 below the evidence gate
Phytolacca esculenta Van Houtte 0 below the evidence gate
Phytolacca goudotii Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Phytolacca heptandra Retz. 0 below the evidence gate
Phytolacca latbenia H.Walter 0 below the evidence gate
Phytolacca meziana H.Walter 0 below the evidence gate
Phytolacca sanguinea H.Walter 0 below the evidence gate
Phytolacca weberbaueri H.Walter 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.